Let's Grow | the blog

TOP THREE CAUSES OF BURNOUT…OR AT LEAST THEY WERE MY TOP THREE! My husband and I managed to pull off a three-week sabbatical where we removed ourselves from everything and everybody. Many people much smarter than myself told us three weeks was not long enough, so we knew we had to make the most of every moment, being intentional in my thoughts and actions. It's amazing how much you can accomplish with no phone, no social media, no work, and no appointments. I was living in th

There's a dark recess of your mind that is the end of you. Burnout takes you to a tired that sleep won't fix.

As I stood by her bed, I felt an old friend surface. Why in the world would I feel...jealous?

I knew that, if I wanted children that loved the ministry, I had to exemplify a positive attitude about the ministry.

I'll take one for the team and say the thing that most ministry wives wouldn't dare say out loud: I don't want to go back to th

Fear teaches us to pray differently. Whether it’s physical or emotional pain, it reminds us we are needy people dependent upon a God who nev

...if you are a MINISTRY MAMA and you feel that your husband has upfront leadership and a divine calling, but you are left sitting on the cu

Life gets really full and really busy, and sometimes it feels like you can’t add one more thing. But today, I challenge you to add more thin

As our family grew from just the two of us to a party of seven, and our jobs in church ministry grew, our Sabbath turned into just a day off

This is easy for ANY driven person to fall into. It didn’t feel like sin; it actually felt like being a good steward of all God had blessed

I’ve been in ministry alongside my husband for 10 years now and I’ve learned a thing or two about hurt. Today, I specifically want to share

We’ve all been there. We’ve all come face to face with this question and some of us can easily and truthfully answer with one of the above c

I can visualize just where I was sitting in the dimly lit bedroom of our rent house, 16 years ago, where we housed our ministry's home...

Today is the day! Today we are READY to Retreat and have opened up registration for Sanctuary's 2019 Let's Retreat. We are so excite

With 21 years of itinerant ministry under my skinny snakeskin belt, I have sat across the table from many a ministry wife who either unloads

Loneliness Island can bring a girl down, if she lets it. And yes, we should throw out that life preserver for authentic friendship, even if

Once loneliness has a choke hold on an individual, it seems all the more difficult to break out of it. Often ministry wives begin to take in

Loneliness Island may be isolating, but it is overpopulated all the same.

There are seasons that we love like a memorable summer vacation, and seasons where we agonize over the harshness and bitterness of this life

Marriage is both wonderful and challenging. But when you add it to life in ministry, it is often lived out in what feels like a 'fish ta